# Yoshkar-Ola Airport (JOK / UWKJ)

**Yoshkar-Ola Airport** (IATA: JOK, ICAO: UWKJ) is a medium airport in Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El Republic, Russia. It has one runway, 2,400 m (7,874 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 23 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/uwkj

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: JOK / UWKJ
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El Republic, Russia
- Elevation: 106 m / 348 ft
- Coordinates: 56.7006, 47.9047
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 2,400 m / 7,874 ft
- Passengers: 22,649 (2021)
- Time zone: UTC+3 · Europe/Moscow
- Website: http://airola.ru/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshkar-Ola_Airport (13 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2574474
- Ident: UWKJ

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 16/34 | 2,400 m / 7,874 ft |  | Asphalt |  |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2016 | 712 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 465 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 14,866 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 22,649 | Wikidata |

## Routes

2 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [VKO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/uuww.md) Vnukovo International Airport · Russia · 670 km / 416 mi · RusLine
- [LED](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ulli.md) Pulkovo Airport · Russia · 1,084 km / 674 mi · RusLine

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from JOK, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 7R [RusLine](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/rusline) · 2

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 23K (2021) | #2,394 of 3,974 | #739 in Asia | #122 in RU |
| Longest runway | 2,400 m / 7,874 ft | =2,846 of 29,858 | =882 in Asia | =202 in RU |
| Elevation | 106 m / 348 ft | =30,190 of 43,403 | =1,679 in Asia | #400 in RU |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =32 in RU |

## Nearby airports

- [RU-4421](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ru-4421.md) Danilovo Air Base · 9.1 km / 5.6 mi
- [CSY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/uwks.md) Cheboksary Airport · 76 km / 47 mi
- [UWKG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/uwkg.md) Borisoglebskoye Airport · 120 km / 74 mi
- [KZN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/uwkd.md) Kazan International Airport · 148 km / 92 mi

## Sources

- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Yoshkar-Ola Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yoshkar-Ola_Airport&oldid=1363088599), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/uwkj/data